Charles l



(No Model.)

,0. L. HEISLER.

' CORN SHELLER.

No. 405,838. Patented June 25. 1889.

.2 (W e I 1: I \m ]f 6 2 vHim w- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES L. HEISLER, OF DUN KIRK, NEYV YORK, ASSIGNCR OF ONE-HALF TO EDlVARD NICHOLS, OF SAME PLACE.

CORN-SHELLER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 405,838, dated June 25, 1889.

Application filed January 21, 1889. Serial No. 297,027. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: shaft turns freely in an adjustable sleeve- Be it known that I, CHARLES L. HEISLER, a bearing F, which is preferably threaded to citizen of the United States, residing at Dunengage with a screw-threaded socket or nut I kirk, in the county of Chautauqua and State of in a yoke K, the shaft being provided at its New York, have made certain new and useful upper end with a head 6, which bears upon Improvements in Corn-Shellers, of which the the upper face of the bearing F, or, preferfollowing is a specification. ably, upon a ring or collar L of Babbitt or My invention relates to an adjusting device similar metal, and therebysustains the weight to be applied to a corn-sheller, by means of of the cone. By raising and lowering the IO which the distance between the shelling-faces bearing by means of the screw or otherwise may be changed in order to accommodate the .the shaft-section E is caused to rise and fall, machine to the size of the ears of corn being and thus change the distance between the operated upon. shelling-surfaces, as will be understood with- In the drawing, which is a central vertical out detailed description. 15 section of amachine embodying my invention, J is a set-screw adapted to bear upon the parts being in elevation, P represents the bearing F and hold it in position after proper frame-work, in which is supported a screening adjustment. The head of the bearing F is device or receiverAof any usual construction, expanded into a cup shaped receptacle 1'', and the shelling devices, which latter are aradapted to receive a lubricant in the body of 20 ranged to deliver into the receiver A. These which the head 6 of the shaft-section E turns,

shelling devices are shown as consisting of an and more or less of which lubricant will work internally studded and ribbed hopper or shell down the sides of the shaft, causing it to run B, contracted toward the center, and a studfreely in the sleeve of the bearing.

ded revolving cone C, mounted centrally G represents a lid for closing the open end 25 within the shell. of cup f.

The parts thus far described are of usual The yoke K is preferably bolted to a flange construction. It, projecting laterally from the upper end of The cone C is mounted upon a shaft made the shell 13, such flange being provided with in two sections D and E, the lower section D, a number of apertures m, which permit the 0 serving as the driver for the cone, being belted yoke to be bolted to the shell in the most deto any desired motor. The cone is splined sirable position for feeding the corn into the upon the lower section D of the shaft, so that machine. A feed hopper or chute may likeit may be moved longitudinally thereon in wise be secured to such flange 70, if found deorder to bring the studded surfaces of the sirable.

5 cone and shell nearer to or farther from each lVithout limiting myself to the precise con- 8 5 other as the size of the ears of corn being struction and arrangement of parts shown, I shelled may require. The cone C is supported claim or suspended from above by the upper sec- 1. The combination of the shell, the shaft tion E of the shaft, the lower endof which in two sections, and the cone turning with 40 section enters a socket or aperture in the upand sliding on the lower section and adjust- 0 per end or apex of the cone, and in which it is able vertically with the upper section, subclamped by the bolt 1). The wall of. the cone stantially as set forth. surrounding the aperture or socket into which 2. The combination, with the shell and the the end of the section E of the shaft extends cone, of the shaft in two sections, the upper 4 5 is split or out from its upper edge downward, section suspending the cone, and a stationary 9 5 so that the parts of the wall thus separated adjustable bearing for the upper section of may be drawn toward each other by the bolt the shaft in which it turns, substantially as b, and thus be made to tightly clamp the shaft, set forth. I which would not be possible were the said 3. The combination of the shell, the shaft in 50 wall integral and rigid. The sectionE of the two sections, the cone turning with and slid- 10o ing on the lower section and adjustable with the upper section, the yoke K, and an adjusting-screw for the upper section of the shaft mounted in the said yoke, substantially as set forth.

4:. The combination, with the cone and the shell, of the shaft in two sections, the upper section E being headed and supporting the cone, the stationary adjustable bearing provided with a sleeve in which the section E of the shaft turns, and above the'upper face of which the head of the said section bears, substantially as set forth.

5. The combination of the driving-shaft, the

Witnesses:

W. P. VAN NESS, D. F. VAN NEss, 

